Hidden inside covert sit corvet, covert, and vector, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
corvet, covert, and vector tie for the highest Scrabble score from covert at 11 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in covert: two come from rearranging its letters, and covert itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are corvet, covert, and vector, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in covert. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cover and voter. For points, the strongest plays are cover and covet — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in covert produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, over, tore, and vote. For points, the strongest play is cove — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling covert turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with toe and vet. For points, the strongest plays are rev, vet, and voe — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in covert. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or and to. For points, the strongest plays are er, et, oe, or, re, te, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in covert and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
covert is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for covert. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
covert is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing covert unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are corvet, covert, and vector, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from covert earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in covert produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.